Shana Fisher
Managing Partner @ Third Kind Venture Capital
New York, United States
Shana Fisher is a seed investor at Third Kind Venture Capital in New York focused on Software and Machine Learning. Shana Fisher is the Managing Partner of HLVP, a NY Based venture fund focused on early stage investments. From December 2003 to June 2010, Ms. Fisher served as IAC's Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning & Mergers and Acquisitions, and prior to that as the Senior Vice President of Business Operations for IAC. Previously, Ms. Fisherserved as Vice President and Director, Media and Technology Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance for Allen & Company, LLC. In this capacity she led principle investments and advised publicly traded technology firms, private telecommunications firms and media companies. Prior to Allen & Company, LLC., Ms. Fisher was a program manager for the Microsoft Corporation. Ms. Fisher received her B.A. from Hampshire College with a triple major in Sculpture, Philosophy and Linguistics and attended the Master of Arts program at New York University's ITP.
- Total investments:
- 41
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 12%
Last updated:
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Industries Shana Fisher invests in
Stages Shana Fisher invests in
Countries Shana Fisher invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$7M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$100M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (20%)
- Machine Learning 6 (15%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (12%)
- Fashion 4 (10%)
- Internet 4 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 23 (56%)
- Series A 9 (22%)
- Angel 2 (5%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (5%)
- Funding Round 2 (5%)
Country
- United States 28 (68%)
- France 2 (5%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Transak
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Transak is a global web3 payment and onboarding infrastructure provider, facilitating seamless transitions between traditional finance and crypto assets. Its product suite includes robust fiat-to-crypto services (On/Off-Ramps), a fiat-to-smart-contract solution (Transak One), and a fiat-to-NFT checkout solution. As a regulated, non-custodialpayments layer, Transak supports onboarding to 160+ crypto assets across 75+ blockchains. Trusted by over 350+ applications, including MetaMask and Coinbase Wallet, Transak is making web3 applications more accessible. | $20M / Series A / May 30, 2023 | |
Kiln
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Kiln creates an enterprise-level pledge platform and provides one-click pledge services for encrypted assets. It develops validator-independent APIs and services to enable multi-provider staking. Digital assets can be staked wherever they are held, including wallets, custodians, and exchanges. As the industry evolves and the need to integratemultiple stakeholder players becomes apparent, Kiln is in an excellent position to act as an aggregator and accelerate it. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Paris, France. | $5M / May 20, 2022 | |
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Kiln
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Kiln creates an enterprise-level pledge platform and provides one-click pledge services for encrypted assets. It develops validator-independent APIs and services to enable multi-provider staking. Digital assets can be staked wherever they are held, including wallets, custodians, and exchanges. As the industry evolves and the need to integratemultiple stakeholder players becomes apparent, Kiln is in an excellent position to act as an aggregator and accelerate it. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Paris, France. | $5M / Seed / May 19, 2022 | |
Glean
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Build a collaborative data culture. | $7M / Seed / Mar 30, 2022 | |
Hashboard
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Hashboard is a business intelligence (BI) product built for data engineers to do their best work and easily spread the data love to their entire organizations. Define metrics on your data warehouse and let your whole team search, explore and find insights that drive your business. | $7M / Seed / Mar 30, 2022 | |
Hopscotch
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We believe the flow of money between businesses should mirror the seamless flow of money between individuals. As former small business owners ourselves, we're all too familiar with the intricacies of getting paid and making payments to service providers. Hopscotch's stored value accounts and consumer-like business profiles enable us tocreate an unmatched payments experience. But our vision extends beyond a payments platform. We're building a destination for small businesses to connect, transact, and grow together. A simple, easy-to-use interface. A community of businesses thriving. Together. As one. | $6.1M / Seed / Mar 08, 2022 | |
Hopscotch
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Invoicing, bill pay, and cash flow management for small businesses. | $6.1M / Seed / Mar 04, 2022 | |
Zefir
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An all-in-one platform that allows people to sell or buy in one simple, certain transaction | $22.8M / Series A / Feb 10, 2022 | |
Āut Labs
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Āut is an extendable Protocol designed to power the next generation of human Coordination.The DAOs 2.0, if you like, or a DAO Renaissance.It does so by "expanding" any Standard DAO Contract - with custom Membership modules on top.Āut is a protocol that expands any DAO’s legacy contract (i.e.: a Moloch DAO), and bringing expandable,customizable membership & governance modules at contract level for Web3 Communities. At its core, it adds the native concept of Role & Interaction at contract level - so that each Member of a Community is represented in a much more multidimensional, richer way - other than a flat 0x… address.Currently, the Āut suite includes: - to Integrate āut, add Roles & expand/deploy a DAO from scratch. - a Decentralized Authentication System for DAOs. - a DAO OS, to manage members, tasks and community modules. - (my) ĀutID: a public profile & portfolio for self-sovereign, non-transferable NFT IDs. | $1.7M / Pre-Seed / Feb 02, 2022 | |
Envisagenics
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Envisagenics focus on the discovery of RNA therapeutics. Their mission is to reduce the complexity of biomedical data to accelerate the development of innovative therapeutic solutions through RNA splicing analytics and artificial intelligence. Over 30 million people in the US suffer from genetic diseases or cancer that could be caused bymutations affecting RNA splicing. 370 human diseases are known to be caused by splicing errors, and more remain to be discovered.Their breakthrough technology, SpliceCore, is a cloud-based platform that is experimentally validated to predict drug targets and biomarkers through splicing discovery from RNA-seq data, using Artificial Intelligence. We are using our software to identify splicing errors causative of diseases, identify the right drug targets, and develop RNA therapeutics through partnerships and collaborations with Biopharma. Their in-silico RNA therapeutics discovery platform replaces expensive drug-target selection and lead design with efficient computer simulations, decreasing time, cost, and failure risk of drug development programs.Envisagenics was founded in 2014 as a spinout of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. | $19.2M / Series A / Sep 29, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
3KVC is a New York-based venture fund focused on early-stage investments. The company intends to invest in the software and financial services industries.
Third Kind Venture Capital Contacts
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Shana Fisher
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What does Shana Fisher invest in?
Shana Fisher invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Shana Fisher's check size?
Shana Fisher typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$7M at Seed and $2.5M–$100M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Shana Fisher participates in.
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The most recent investment recorded for Shana Fisher closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 41 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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